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ISBN 10: 0415341914

ISBN 13: 9780415341912

Author: Alan Berkeley Thomas

By its very nature, management is a multidisciplinary enterprise. Despite this, management research has tended to be organized around a number of discrete management disciplines with their own methodological outlooks. As a result, researchers in different fields often find it difficult to appreciate work outside their own area of specialization, so inhibiting much-needed collaboration across disciplinary boundaries. Management has emerged as a major area of research that has attracted students in growing numbers. However, there are still relatively few texts that are tailored specifically to the needs and interests of management researchers. Together with its companion volume, Research Skills for Management Studies (Routledge, 2003), this book offers management students a challenging but accessible introduction to research methods and concepts, irrespective of their field of specialization.

Research Concepts for Management Studies 1st Table of contents:

1 What does it all mean?

Some features of language and discourse

Language and discourse

Discourse communities

Discourse communities in academia

Methodology as a lingua franca

Lingua franca in psychology

Words, practices and meanings

The problem of meaning and the vocabulary of research

Determinism and language

Postmodernism and language

Pragmatism and language

Contexts of meaning

Epistemological and methodological contexts

Disciplinary contexts

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

Temporal contexts

National contexts

Conclusion

Further reading

2 Science and management studies

The language of science

The standard model of science

Hypothetico-deductive method

Inventing science

Challenges to the standard model

The myth of scientific method

Science and the social

Positivist social science

Constructionist social science13

Realist social science

Antisocial science: postmodernism

The social science disciplines

Psychology

Sociology

Economics

Management studies and the social sciences

Accounting and finance

Marketing

The pro-science era (1945–83)

The anti-science era (1983–99)

The non-science era (2000–)

Organizational behaviour

Action science

Conclusion on science

Further reading

General

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

3 Theory and management studies

The language of theory

The range of theory

Theories and models

Theories, laws and hypotheses

Macro, middle-range and micro theory

Theory and practice

Perspectives on theory

The positivist view of theory

Theory in economics: Milton Friedman

Theory in psychology: Fred Kerlinger

Theory-building and theory testing

Alternative views of theory

Against variable analysis

Grounded theory

Postmodernism and theory

Theory in management studies

Management theory

Variety in management theory

Reluctant theorists?

Theory in accounting and finance

Models and their assumptions

Theorizing in accounting

Marketing and theory

The quest for general theory

Theory in organizational behaviour

Conclusion on theory

Further reading

General

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

4 Data and management studies

The language of data

Quantitative data/qualitative data

Hard/soft data

Raw data

Primary/secondary data

Data and reality

Data as theory laden

Social realities and data

Social objects

Sensing devices

Data and social research

Positivism and data

Objective data

Going beyond the data

Constructionism and data

Studying other’s constructions

Self-constructing the world

Postmodernism and data

Data in management studies

Data in accounting and finance

Data in marketing

Data in organizational behaviour

Conclusion on data

Further reading

General

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

5 Validity and management studies

The language of validity

Validity in research

Multiple meanings

Validity and value judgement

A brief history of validity in social research

Psychometrics: mental measurement

Reactions to positivism

Validity in quantitative research

Validity in psychological testing

Predictive, concurrent and content validity

The origins of construct validity

Construct validity today

Internal and external validity

Conceptual issues

Validity in qualitative research

Unitarist approaches

Relativist approaches

Guba and Lincoln’s validity criteria

Maxwell’s validity criteria

How valid are qualitative validity criteria?

Poststructuralism and validity

Validity in management studies

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

Conclusion on validity

Further reading

General

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

6 Significance and management studies

The language of significance

Values and value-freedom in research

Facts against values

The positivist position

Counter-positions

Critical theory

Feminism

Postmodernism

Clarifying the issues

Weber and value neutrality

Epistemic and non-epistemic values

Significance in management studies

Accounting and finance

Marketing

Organizational behaviour

Significance-as-value: conclusion

Statistical significance: is it significant?

The language of statistical significance

The idea of significance testing

Criticisms of significance testing

Statistical significance: conclusion

Further reading

Significance-as-value

Statistical significance

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